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Maltese

Finnish
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Countries

Countries

European Union, Malta
European Union, Finland

Total No. Of Countries

22
0 46
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National Language

Malta
Estonia, Finland, Norway, Russia, Sweden

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Estonia

Speaking Continents

Europe
Asia, Europe

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Republic of Karelia, Russian Federation, Sweden

Regulated By

National Council for the Maltese Language
Institute for the Languages of Finland

Interesting Facts

  • Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
  • Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
  • Finnish language has adopted many words from Iranian, Turkic, Baltic, Germanic and Slavic languages.
  • In Finnish language, there are no articles or grammatical gender.

Similar To

Western Arabic Dialects
Estonian and Livonian Languages

Derived From

Roman Languages
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3029
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

68
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2413
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

64
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Ħello
Moi

Thank You

Grazzi
Kiitos

How Are You?

Kif int?
Mitä kuuluu?

Good Night

Il-Lejla it-tajba
hyvää yötä

Good Evening

Il-Lejla it-tajba
Hyvää iltaa

Good Afternoon

Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Hyvää iltapäivää

Good Morning

L-għodwa t-tajba
Hyvää huomenta

Please

Jekk jogħġbok
haluta

Sorry

Skużani!
Anteeksi

Bye

Ċaw
Heippa

I Love You

Inħobbok ħafna
Minä rakastan sinua

Excuse Me

Skużi!
Anteeksi

Dialects

Dialect 1

Qormi
Colloquial Finnish

Where They Speak

Malta
Finland

How Many People Speak

520,000.005,600,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Żejtun
Rauma

Where They Speak

Malta
Finland, Rauma

How Many People Speak

500,000.005,600,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not Present
Meänkieli

Where They Speak

-
Finland, Sweden

How Many People Speak

500,000.0060,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

221
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

0.52 million5.40 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.02 %0.13 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

0.52 million5.40 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

0.50 million0.01 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Malti
suomi / suomen kieli

Alternative Names

Malti
Suomi

French Name

maltais
finnois

German Name

Maltesisch
Finnisch

Pronunciation

[mɔːltiːz]
[ˈsuomi]

Ethnicity

Maltese
ethnic Finns

History

Origin

c. 1470
1543

Language Family

Afro-Asiatic Family
Uralic Family

Subgroup

Semitic
Finno-Ugric

Branch

North Abric
Finnic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Proto-Finnic language

Standard Forms

Maltese
standard Finnish

Language Position

2522
1 120
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Signed Forms

Maltese Sign Language
Signed Finnish

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

mt
fi

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

mlt
fin

ISO 639 2/B

mlt
fin

ISO 639 3

mlt
fin

ISO 639 6

mlt
fin

Glottocode

malt1254
finn1318

Linguasphere

12-AAC-c
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Synthetic
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Maltese and Finnish Alphabets

Maltese and Finnish Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Maltese and Finnish. In Maltese Alphabets there are 30 letters while in Finnish Alphabets there are 29 letters. To learn Maltese and Finnish languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Maltese and Finnish languages. The Maltese phonology consist Maltese vowels and Maltese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Maltese greetings vs Finnish greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Maltese and Finnish are Most Spoken Languages.

All Maltese and Finnish Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Maltese and Finnish dialects. Various dialects of Maltese and Finnish language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Maltese are spoken in different Maltese Speaking Countries whereas Finnish Dialects are spoken in different Finnish speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Maltese vs Finnish Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Maltese dialects include: Qormi, Żejtun. Finnish dialects include: Colloquial Finnish , Rauma. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Maltese and Finnish Speaking population

Maltese and Finnish speaking population is one of the factors based on which Maltese and Finnish languages can be compared. The total count of Maltese and Finnish Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Maltese language is 0.02 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Finnish language is 0.13 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Maltese and Finnish on Maltese vs Finnish where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Maltese and Finnish Language Codes

Maltese and Finnish language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Maltese and Finnish Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.